Play and Games in Antiquity - Definition, Transmission, Reception - Locus Ludi
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Play and Games in Antiquity
Definition, Transmission, Reception
Swiss Museum of Games, September 17-19, 2018
Wall painting (H. 36 cm, L. 70 cm), Pompéi (IX, 3, 5), 69-79 CE. Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 9103
This Project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under agreement No.
741520 Locus Ludi. the Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity. Supported by the
ERC Advanced Grant (2017-2022).
OUR HERITAGE
WHERE THE PAST
MEETS THE FUTURE
Monday 17th September
10:15 OPENING - Véronique Dasen, Michel Fuchs, Ulrich Schädler
In Search of Ancient Games and Play
DEFINITION
10:30 Mark Golden, Winnipeg
Play, Dance, Sport, War: Ancient Greek Bodies in Motion
11:15 Stephen Kidd, Brown University (by skype)
Is play an Emotion? An Inquiry into Greek Paidia
11:45 Christian Laes, Antwerp
Ludus and Education
12:30 Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Madrid
Early Christian Attitudes to Child Playing
13:15 Lunch pizza, fruits, yaourt
14:15 Anton Bierl, Basel
Choral Dance as a Play: paizein in Greek Drama
15:00 Karin Schlapbach, Fribourg
Ludus as Dance and Bodily Movement
15:45 Break
BEGINNINGS AND ENDS
16:00 Marco Vespa, Fribourg
L'origine du jeu: récits grecs sur l'invention des pratiques ludiques entre Palamède,
Prométhée et Theuth
16:45 Cleo Gougouli, Patras
The Search for Cultural Continuity in Studies of Modern Greek Children’s Games:
Some Methodological Questions
17:30 Break
17:45 Francesca Berti, Tübingen
Meanings of tradition in the Context of Play
18:30 Julien du Bouchet, Montpellier
Jouer en rêve : autour d’Artémidore
EVENING LECTURE
19h30 Katarzyna Marciniak, Warsaw (ERC Our Mythical Childhood)
The Reception of the Alea iacta est Motif in CultureTuesday 18th September
MATERIAL DEFINITION
09:00 Regine Fellmann, Kantonsarchäologie Aargau, Brugg
Games and Toys From Vindonissa – An Overview
Barbara Pfäffli, Augusta Raurica
Augusta Raurica – Play in the Town
10:00 Break
10:15 Chiara Bianchi, Milano
“Alexandrian Counters”: Finds in Archaeological Contexts
11:00 Clare Rowan, Warwick (ERC Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean)
Sorting Fun From Fiction: Were “tesserae” Gaming Pieces?
11:45 Charles Doyen, Louvain
Osselets ou poids ?
12:30 Lunch
ICONOGRAPHIC DEFINITION
13:30 Vicky Sabetai, Athènes
Playing at the Festival: aiora, a Swinging Ritual
14:15 Michel Fuchs, Lausanne
Jeux d’Eros et jeux d’enfants : la corde, le dé et l’osselet en messagers du temps
15:00 Break
15:15 Nikolina Kei, Paris
Ancient Drawing, Fictive Play
16:00 Arnaud Zucker, Nice
Proverbs
16:45 Visit of the Swiss Museum of Games
18:00 Event Festival Images : Official opening of the artwork by Saype in the
context of the Festival Images Vevey
EVENING LECTURE
19:15 Michel Manson, Toulouse
Un érudit inattendu : Louis Becq de Fouquières, le premier historien des jeux et jouets
de l’Antiquité
Discutant : Louis-Aimé de FouquièresWednesday 19th September
RECEPTION
09:00 Simone Beta, Siena
Studiare la lingua e la letteratura greca divertendosi: gli indovinelli greci nelle scuole
di Bisanzio/ Etudier la langue et la littérature en s’amusant: les devinettes grecques
dans les écoles de Byzance
09:45 Renzo Tosi, Bologna
Pollux et les noms des jeux
10:30 Andromache Karanika, Irvine
Midas and the “Pot” Game: Intertextual Insights into an Ancient Game
11:15 Break
11:30 Salvatore Costanza, Fribourg
Pollux témoin des jeux : continuité, survie et réception dans la culture ludique
néogrecque
12:15 Barbara Carè, Athens
Appropriating the Past: New Perspectives on Game Studies. The Ancient and Modern
Game of Astragals
13:00 Lunch
Final discussion - conclusions
Conference under the patronage of the Association Suisse pour l’Etude de l’Antiquité (ASEA),
of the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH), with the support of the European
Research Council, of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (ASSH), in
collaboration with the University of Fribourg, the Association for Roman Archaeology in
Switzerland (ARS) and the University of Lausanne.Play and games provide a privileged access to past societal norms, values, identities,
and collective imaginary. People play all over the world and throughout history, but
they do not play the same games, nor do they attribute the same meaning and
function to play. The aim of this pluridisciplinary conference is to investigate how
this past patrimony can be methodologically reconstructed.
Three sessions will address first how the Ancients defined play and games by
analysing their vocabulary in order to reconstruct an emic definition. Beyond the
common association of child and play (in Greek, paidia, ‘game’, pais, the child, and
paideia, ‘education’, share the same root, in Latin ludus means ‘play’, ‘school’ and
‘rethorical games’), the views are more complex and nuanced. Identifiying ludic
material and practices archaeologically as well as in iconography is also a debatable
issue. The second session concerns the sources available and their bias associated
with literary genre, such as oniromancy, proverbs and the lexicon of Pollux. A major
challenge is the reconstruction of a mostly oral patrimony, of lost children’s lore and
agency. The third session examines the transmission process of these practices from
one generation to the next, addressing crucial issues about continuities and
discontinuities, as well as about the definition of a “traditional” game.
Place Contacts & Organisation
Musée Suisse du Jeu veronique.dasen@unifr.ch
Rue du Château 11 michel.fuchs@unil.ch
1814 La Tour-de-Peilz ulrich.schaedler@unifr.ch
How to arrive
By train direction Villeneuve (S2 or S3)
Stop “Tour-de-Peilz”, then walk for 5 minutes.
By train + by bus
Train IR 90 direction Brig, stop “Vevey”, then take the bus 201 (direction Villeneuve)
for 5 minutes until stop “La Tour-de-Peilz centre” or walk for 15 minutes.You can also read
